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If there's a price tag, we'll know the motivation was greed. If it's free, I wonder why they didn't complete the game then release it. Or perhaps considering the scale of the outburst, it would've been for a price but they decide otherwise. I somehow doubt this was originally planned like this, there's no way someone with 1/2 a brain would think this wouldn't get significant backlash from fans. Stupid pills, they were taking them.

At this point, to release the ending DLC for free would be considered an investment. The idea being a better ending is necessary for both retaining customers for later ME games, and to ensure there is a point making side story DLCs that they could legitimately charge for.

No one would mind paying for DLC that explore each alien planet with more detail. But the requirement is that the Ending be altered, as otherwise there is literally no point buying them at all. A Nihilistic ending is all well and good if you deliberately want to kill a franchise, but I am sure Bioware want the opposite of that.

At this point, to release the ending DLC for free would be considered an investment. The idea being a better ending is necessary for both retaining customers for later ME games, and to ensure there is a point making side story DLCs that they could legitimately charge for.

No one would mind paying for DLC that explore each alien planet with more detail. But the requirement is that the Ending be altered, as otherwise there is literally no point buying them at all. A Nihilistic ending is all well and good if you deliberately want to kill a franchise, but I am sure Bioware want the opposite of that.

Yeah, in the end Bioware needs to look at this ending situation as an investment. If they screw it up they will lose plenty of people that would have come back for more Mass Effect games/DLC. Don't charge for it, get them back on your side and then get them in for stupid things like rescuing Omega or whatever.

Definitely right now there just isn't any point to replaying or considering whatever other DLC they have in mind. Whatever planets we might go to, they are just as screwed by the ending as everyone else.

Kaiden/Ashley
Liara
Edi
James
*Javik if you have the DLC From the Ashes

And you miss out on a lot of story stuff too.

A lot of ME2 squad mates don't get to rejoin anyway, so it has very little effect on ME3's gameplay. In theory it decreases your possible Readiness, but we know it meaning nothing until we find out what the new ending(s) would be.